Hello, it’s EBD here, filling in tonight for Vitruvius. I am frankly in awe at his state-of-the-art studio and at the sheer number of technical staff, including five in-house cheese makers, that it takes to run Late Night Radio.
I’m being waved at from behind the glass to get on with the music, but first, for your lactation, some German shepherd-sized milk cows. Not only will they provide 16 pints of milk a day, they also mow your lawn. If you really, really want one, but don’t have a hatchback to bring it home in, why not grab an armload of African pygmy hedgehogs instead? They shed environmentally friendly toothpicks and they make tasty treats for your dogs, who’ll surely be begging “more hedgehog, please.”
Tonight’s musical selection is a motorcycle-themed masterpiece of narrative songwriting from England’s Richard Thompson. A founding member in 1967 of influential electric-folk band Fairport Convention, Thompson has gone on to have a successful solo career and wide renown among musicians as one of the world’s great guitar players. Vincent Black Lightning is dedicated here to Kate, the most dangerous woman in the blogosphere –even her serial numbers are dangerous.
Thread open for reader tips.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081024.wmartin25/BNStory/politics/home
This is hilarious, now they changed the article. Originally it said:
The government posted on Friday its first monthly deficit in years.
Now it says:
The government posted on Friday a monthly deficit for August.
After I completely slammed them at 9:06 EDT, pointing out that the largest “monthly deficits” were under the liberals. Not only that, they happen twice a year, every year, for the past 5 years.
Vincent Black Lightning 1952, a great video…thanks!
Good stuff!
Syncro
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fwiw… also not on my xmas shopping list…
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Thanks for that EBD. In another life I had a BSA Lightning.
I don’t feel comfortable with this sudden change, EBD. I’m going into convulsions missing Vitruvius.
Bite down on an African pygmy hedgehog, if you have one.
And have no fear, Vitruvius returns tomorrow.
Gentle mumbling of the spiky coat of the African pygmy hedgehog does have known anxiolytic effects; less widely recognized is the fact that it also provides a stimulating and salubrious gum massage. Further, it is enjoyable for the hedgehog.
Blackfive (via Ace of Spades),
is working on a lead regarding an Obama mistress, and (here’s the money angle) Mayor Daley with a payoff to hush her up.
Ace seems to think this may get traction, and in the comments section alludes to the validity of the payoff.
Here:
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/276513.php
Every once in awhile…
Former NDP premier Ujjal Dosanjh, asked about his aspirations for leadership of the Liberal Party, said “…ultimately I think that Western Canada needs to be on the political map of Canada so I’m going to seriously think about it.”
A Liberal reveals themselves.
When you think things couldn’t get any worse with HRC’s, they have found a new group to go after — doctors. I came close to losing it when I leafed through my copy of the medical post (14/10/2008 edition) today and encountered the article entitled: “New human rights rules have major implications for doctors”.
Right now doctors make the decision about whether someone becomes a patient in their practice and this decision is largely based on ones gut feelings about a new patient. For a patient to get into my previous practice it helped if they’re gun-owners, employed fulltime and don’t have any need for time-wasting medical reports to be completed. I don’t mind patients with complex medical problems as I get bored dealing with simple stuff. A patient that I won’t take into my practice is a single mother who’s always been on welfare and wants a doctor that will provide her with reams of documentation on how her “multiple chemical sensitivity” condition can only be remedied by a move to a residence that rents for 10X the amount she gets in welfare payments each month.
Apparently by seeking to preserve my sanity when I practice medicine, I’m engaging in discrimination by “preventing someone from getting universal health-care”. Even the CMPA which is supposed to protect physicians has weighed in stating that “you’d have a difficult time defending yourself, even if the request [for a person to become a patient] was turned down for what many doctors would think are legitimate practice-management reasons”.
Of course the HRC’s are only trying to be “helpful” here. Barbara Hall is quoted as saying, about the process of screening patients that: [HRC’s are] “showing them where the risks were so that they could avoid complaints”. She also expects complaints to HRC’s to rise from less than 200/year (not only versus doctors) to over 3000/year once HRC’s start dealing with this massive violation of “human rights” in Canada. Just what HRC’s need to argue for more funding now that the primary purveyors of internet “hate” have been shown to be HRC employees. What’s next, HRC employees posing as welfare recipients with “multiple chemical sensitivity” syndrome showing up at doctors offices with inch thick folders of forms to be filled out?
When did universal access to health-care become a “human right”?
On the other hand, this may be what finally eliminates socialized medicine in this country. By opting out of the medical system en-masse physicians will no longer be subject to the whims of HRC’s as any business has the right to charge what it pleases for services it provides. That quickly removes the potential patients on welfare who are usually some of the most demanding patients in ones practice. Patients who require massive amounts of documentation for insurance companies regarding their “disability” may have some money but the price I would put on filling out forms I am loathe to do would be beyond their means. I think that $1000/hour for assinine insurance forms barely compensates me for the mental anguish that such a waste of medical manpower involves. (I recently ran into an insurance letter that I wrote when I first started practice that began “If I wanted to be a clerk I would have gotten a lobotomy instead of a medical degree” A lawyer friend of mine eventually convinced me that I shouldn’t be sending stuff like that off regardless of the fact that it made me feel better).
In Ontario now only 10% of practices are accepting new patients. Expect this number to go to close to zero if HRC’s expand their fight against discrimination into the medical field. Where I practice now in BC 25% of people don’t have a GP. I’ve thought of opening a general practice rather than just working walkin clinic shifts and doing some hospital work, but I’m much less inclined to do so now as I think it is a basic human right for doctors to choose who they accept as patients. Probably time to send Ezra a donation to support his fight against HRC’s.
Thanks a bunch, EBD, for your visiting DJ work here tonight at SDA Late Night Radio; you are as always, sir, a gentleman, a scholar, and too kind. Excellent selections tonight too, well, in my opinion, of course. Yea verily though I am not an aficionado of the generic “folk” genre, Richard Thompson is, in my opinion, greatly underrated, so I think that it is great that you highlighted him here tonight. And on the matter of the video, the image at 0:30 is most excellent: talk about a silhouette of two engines connected to two wheels.
And your playing off delectation + cheese => for your lactation + the Dexter was, seriously, magnificently brilliantly droll.
So thanks again; I hope we can do this again and again, and soon.
For the record, folks, tonight’s awards ceremony went very well. With the free booze having now stopped flowing, and with the cumulative actual data now in hand: I think that there was at least a degree to which it was the case that my skepticism of the whole phenomenon (and yet never cynicism) was perhaps due at least in part to my hubris-avoidance algorithms.
Hubris is the gateway to shame.
So even though the award my colleague and I received tonight was, I thought and to a degree still think, at least a bit superfluous (and no, it wasn’t for my hair, that wouldn’t have been superfluous đ apparently nobody else thought that, which I suppose counts for at least something ~ more importantly, there were some other folks there who were being commended for what has been, in my opinion, really excellent work. Your very life, my friends here at SDA, may yet some day depend on their work.
My sincerely heartiest congratulations to them.
She who shall not be named was, I thought, as obnoxious as I thought she would be, yet perhaps surprisingly enough, there was a palpable counter-attack from the dais (well, we are talking Alberta here), and more importantly perhaps, it now appears to me that she just didn’t matter that much in the final analysis, one way or another.
It reminds me again of the notion that, while we Friends of SDA may be students of politics, it is not necessarily the case that those who do not share the same proclivities as us are a priori violating Plato’s dictum to the effect that “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men”. The older I get, the more I realize. Thank god for hubris-avoidance algorithms.
I don’t expect much from the rubber-chicken-food circuit, yet I must say that the staff at tonight’s function really did do a bang-up job. I will say that I did do my best to personally thank each of them that I had the opportunity to personally interact with, and that I will write a letter to the executive chef in that regard, and perhaps I can find out (having been otherwise unsuccessful thereto tonight) what that most excellent mild blue cheese they had there was, in which case I shall of course report it here, for the delactation of The Friends of SDA.
After all, we cheese-makers cannot survive on cultures alone.
One last thing: a tuxedo is much more comfortable than I would have thought. I’m tempted to go out a buy a few and start wearing a tuxedo all the time. Oh great, now he’s really gone off the deep end !-)
In closing then, I learned some things tonight, which is an experience I always highly value (especially when the net cost is negative). Not learning: not so much. So if all my preconceptions had been correct, tonight’s phenomenon would have been less valuable. Funny how that works, isn’t it.
As always, thanks to our gracious hostess Kate, and please don’t forget to tip your waitress and the doorman as you depart for another night from le Club chez SDA Late Nite Radio.
hrc’s are at it again. check the nation post story about the m.p. being put through the grinder re comments about indians and crime.
From loki: …A patient that I won’t take into my practice…
When I arrived from Quebec to Alberta I found a doctor almost immediately. Granted, I’m the type that would be on deathbed rather than have to see a sawbones, but still. When I call for an appointment I can usually get one the same week, no waiting. Is my case unusual because insane people like myself are treated immediately lest the condition worsen?
Who exactly ARE these people that cannot find a doctor?
Just wondering, is there a mad rush to buy Paul Martin’s tell all book, “Come Hell or High Water”?
It’s so fitting that he and his old Boss, Chretien, have spewed their guts in print within months of each other. Perhaps both of their books could be filed under ‘Who The Hell Cares’?
They’ve created the great divide in their party and it’s still operating as a divided entity. Now they have the Iggys and the Raes and the beat goes on…..
“Dosanjh hangs on to B.C. seat by 22 votes”
ctv.ca
“Grit Dosanjh retains seat in Vancouver South after Recount”
The Chronicle Herald.ca
No mention of this in the ctv article
“Disappointed Tory candidate Wai Young said she was disappointed because Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm, who was in charge of the recount, Elected not to open all the ballot boxes”
Can anyone answer these questions
How could you have a “Fair & Unbiased” recount if you did not count or look at All Of The Ballots?
Is the Chief Justice a Liberal Backer?
On another CTV.ca article Dosanjh considers the Liberal Leadership.
Meanwhile, over at the BBC, they admit they are selective when they report on the religion of peace
http://tinyurl.com/5ec5oh
Who knew ??
and what you will never see on CBC or read in teh NYT.
“Obama doesn’t talk much about his years at Columbia University and Harvard Law other than he attended both and was elected president of the Harvard Law Review. The reason may be his records at both were, to say the least, undistinguished.
According to the New York Sun, university spokesman Brian Connolly confirmed that Obama graduated from Columbia in 1983 with a major in political science but without honors. What his grades were we do not know. As the New York Times reported, “Obama declined repeated requests to talk about his New York years, release his Columbia transcript or identify even a single fellow student co-worker, roommate or friend from those years.”
Seems like a job for those 30 people sent to Alaska to investigate Gov. Sarah Palin.
Harvard Law School is hard to get into, with some 7,000 applicants vying for about 500 seats. The LSAT scores required are usually in the 98th or 99th percentile range with grade point averages between 3.80 and 3.95. If Obama’s scores were that high, you’d think we’d know them. But we don’t.”
rtr http://tinyurl.com/3wrd2s
Very scary candidate for POTUS. Makes Slick Willy look honest.
EBD.
I love that song. ‘Nuff said.
Payback time?
Russian observers to monitor U. S. vote.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=901941
bryanr, if all boxes were not recounted the whole exercise is a farce. If he lost ten votes from a select few boxes, how many more would he have lost if all were counted?
This is another shoddy bit of work allowed by EC, what else can be said?
It’s a totally unacceptable farce of major consequences. The Federal Government has to demand ALL votes be recounted or NONE.
Question is, who do we turn to for action on this?
Soviet Russia + Nazi Germany = National Socialism.
Both regimes dead, buried in the PET Cemetery.
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“Stalin’s army of rapists: The brutal war crime that Russia and Germany tried to ignore
Relations between Russia and Germany have not been good since Vladimir Putin’s nationalist sabre-rattling this summer, but they are about to get a whole lot worse.
A new film about to be released in Germany will force both countries to re-examine part of their recent history that each would much prefer to forget. Yet it is right that the ghastly truth should finally be acknowledged.
The movie, A Woman In Berlin, is based on the diary of the German journalist Marta Hillers and depicts the horror of the Red Army’s capture of the capital of the Third Reich in April and May 1945.”
http://tinyurl.com/5lsx2l (dailymailUK)
Looking at Kate’s motorcycle pic reminded me of a article I read about recently where Malaysia has outlawed tomboys and/or lesbians. I wonder if they realize that there is a difference?
http://tinyurl.com/5nkl44
“Lesbianism has been banned under an edict issued by clerics in Malaysia who ruled that “tomboy” behaviour was against Islam.”
Let’s hope that little phenomenon does not migrate to Canada’s multicultural paradise. They would have to imprison most us prairie-raised females. Not to mention all the militant lesbians. Wouldn’t that make for odd cell mates? heh.
BTW, congrats Vit, although I have no idea what your event was about. It sounds impressive.
Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough.*
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“A view from a Canadian neighbor
A commentary in response to a news story:
We have watched with great interest over the past year the on going election process in your beautiful country. We have the social health care system that is being batted around by your Democratic Party and thought you might be interested to hear from someone in British Columbia, Canada where we actually have this system …
Our health care system in Canada began under the best of intentions … “Health Care for All” and we have heard many times that most Americans believe our system is an excellent one. DON’T BELIEVE IT AMERICA!!!! Our health care system is collapsing. We are a country of about 30 million people and have a national debt of 720 billion dollars. The growth of this debt has slowed but only at the expense of our health care system, schools, social programs and our military.
In many cases we have to wait up to a year or longer for CAT Scans, up to a year for a specialist appointment and more than a year for surgery. If you are lucky enough to be able to afford it and smart enough to do it you take your problem across the border into the USA and pay for what you need there to ensure you will at least live. Lots of Canadians are doing just that. Our hospitals in British Columbia are dirty, over crowded, understaffed and they can’t keep up with the load of patients they have to see. Our Doctors and nurses are worked to the bone and stretched to the limits. You think you are finally going to have that surgery you waited so long for and you get to the hospital only to find out that it was cancelled because the operating rooms could not be staffed. Wards are being closed because of personnel shortages and patients are sleeping in the hallways. We have the finest doctors and nurses in the world but we are losing more and more of them to other countries where they can receive better pay, be appreciated for their work and have a life with their own families. A lot of them are in America.
Family doctors are a rarity here in Canada now. Clinics are the only way most of us can get care and we often see a different doctor every time.
Our school systems have suffered greatly. If you think you have problems with your public school systems in America just add health care to the list of things that need to be paid for and see what happens. Good programs that we did have are being cut left right and center because of the drain … our schools are bulging at the seams … they are overcrowded and under funded … we simply do not have the money to sustain our social programs. One of our daughters is a special education teachers assistant trained to work in the school systems here. She has four children and is so discouraged by the failing of the system she home schools all of them. When we started hearing about the social health care system that has been suggested to you in America we decided to warn you all about what the cost will be. If you go down the same road we have here in Canada ALL of you will pay and pay dearly no matter what income level you are. Once you are on the road and like us find it is the hugest money pit ever, how do you try and turn around again? Taxes, taxes and more taxes that never work and as we are middle class Canadians our group is the biggest contributor to the government coppers. No matter who wins your election America, your country has come a long way. It is an exciting time in your history but remember that voting with your heart is going to hit your wallet hard!
If you want to go the road of public health care and be one of the highest taxed country in the world we will be more than happy to pass that title on to you but you won’t like it. Just a view from a Canadian neighbour!
Kindest Regards, Cam and Linda Vallee, British Columbia, Canada”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114942/posts
*”small dead animals: Tommy Douglas, Not Dead Enough
And that’s not even counting all the bureaucrats in the many local health districts and hospitals across Ontario, where I am told that there is …
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/000903.html”
Dosangh was on the first Question Period show after the conservatives were elected in 2006. He was perturbed that the Harper gov’t was allowing our troops to be killed in Afghanistan and demanding a debate and vote on the mission. This interview was approx. 3 weeks after the libs were defeated,and speaks volumes about his integrity,morals,and potential to be a liberal leader.
Citoyen Dionky spikking: Moi was Jeancula’s Ad$Scam Unity ministere. Merde! We had da fun wit da Canadiens’ argent$$$$$.
But, now, I’m translated by Babbelfish: Da. Jawohl.
Snot fair.
“They have never digested the father of the Clarity Act becomes their leader to elect lieutenant in Quebec as a former member of the Trudeau era which had endorsed in the House of Commons on repatriation of unilateral Constitution.”
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“No power for the Liberals without unity”
Celine Hervieux-Payette request to “Memer” to roll up their sleeves rather than criticizing
Ottawa — Elle est peut-ĂŞtre contestĂŠe, mais elle n’a pas l’intention de dĂŠmissionner. Ottawa – It may be challenged, but it does not intend to resign. La sĂŠnatrice CĂŠline Hervieux-Payette, la lieutenant de StĂŠphane Dion au QuĂŠbec, demande aux ÂŤmĂŠmèresÂť de se retrousser les manches plutĂ´t que de la critiquer et de dĂŠstabiliser encore plus le parti. Senator Celine Hervieux-Payette, the lieutenant StĂŠphane Dion in Quebec, calls on “Memer” to roll up their sleeves rather than criticize and further destabilize the party. En dĂŠpit des reproches, elle rappelle qu’elle a rĂŠussi Ă amĂŠliorer les scores ĂŠlectoraux du Parti libĂŠral dans la province. Despite the criticisms, she recalls that it has succeeded in improving the electoral scores of the Liberal Party in the province.
Dans une entrevue exclusive accordĂŠe au Devoir hier, la lieutenant de StĂŠphane Dion au QuĂŠbec a dĂŠcidĂŠ de rĂŠpondre Ă ses adversaires qui la critiquent en coulisses depuis sa nomination il ya moins d’un an. In an exclusive interview given to duty yesterday, the lieutenant StĂŠphane Dion in Quebec has decided to respond to his opponents who criticize the sidelines since his appointment in less than a year. Une rencontre du Conseil de direction du PLC doit avoir lieu lundi et compte blâmer la sĂŠnatrice. A meeting of the Board of Directors of the PLC is to take place Monday and blame the senator. CĂŠline Hervieux-Payette annonce qu’elle reste en poste tant que le chef n’en dĂŠcidera pas autrement. Celine Hervieux-Payette announced that it remains in position as the leader decides otherwise.
ÂŤJ’ai le poste, je n’ai pas l’intention de dĂŠmissionner. “I have the job, I do not intend to resign. Tous ceux qui me connaissent savent que le mot dĂŠmission n’existe pas dans mon vocabulaire.Âť All those who know me know that the word resignation does not exist in my vocabulary. “”
http://tinyurl.com/6actum (ledevoir)
Liz:
I thought the same,
You would think that some light bulbs would have gone off on this recount.
I think that Ms Young & her advisors should get an opinion from the Conservative National HQ. and considering the differences that CPC has had with EC in the past
Not all boxes were reopened & their is a difference?
I dunno something strange about this one, Are their any BCrs on today that are in that riding that could comment?
Biff: Went to your link and now understand what has been hinted about that would prove to be explosive.
Little time left in the campaign, and naturally the big O’s followers will be unaffected even if proven to be true. Saw the alleged mistress’s photo with Whoopie on imbd and she certainly is a real beauty.
At the recent dinner one of his statements was (in my words) that the worst thing his distractors had found out about him was that he had fathered two children in wedlock. Doubt he’s unaware of this ongoing investigation.
Personally, I’d be glad for his daughters’ sakes if it’s untrue.
BTW Liz:
think about this, If the Shoe was on the other foot? the liberals would be Demanding a National Enquiry be set up, taking this to the Highest court Or would have their Speed Dial to EC on constant redial & would be all over the MSM crying Foul!
‘landslide” Ujjal’s ‘win” must be challenged by the CpC.
A full count, not behind closed EC doors – open to media scrutiny.
MUST be done. Get a Court Order if necessary.
Ujjal was a disaster as an NDP Premier in BC. Still a disaster as a Federal Liberal. Time to get his political plank primed for a walk.
Great post EBD.
Kate, the most dangerous woman in the blogosphere – even her serial numbers are dangerous.
Read this post and agreed “Kate” you are the full of good mischief.
The Herd said ’twas CFCs punching the “hole” in the OZone. Qing-Bin Lu begs to differ.
Canadian MSM has failed to publish this. MSM is obsessed with Citoyen Dionky and the ill-fated O.
Wattsup and SDA speaks on behalf of U of Waterloo and Qing-Bin Lu and his workers.
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“New theory predicts the largest ozone hole over Antarctica will occur this month – cosmic rays at fault
25 10 2008
WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008) â A University of Waterloo scientist says that cosmic rays are a key cause for expanding the hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole â and predicts the largest ozone hole will occur in one or two weeks.
Qing-Bin Lu, a professor of physics and astronomy who studies ozone depletion, said that it was generally accepted for more than two decades that the Earthâs ozone layer is depleted by chlorine atoms produced by sunlight-induced destruction of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in the atmosphere. But more and more evidence now points to a new theory that the cosmic rays (energy particles that originate in space) play a major role.”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/10/25/new-theory-predicts-the-largest-ozone-hole-over-antarctica-will-occur-this-month/
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“New theory predicts the largest ozone hole over Antarctica will occur this month
WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008) — A University of Waterloo scientist says that cosmic rays are a key cause for expanding the hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole — and predicts the largest ozone hole will occur in one or two weeks.
Qing-Bin Lu,”
http://newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca/news.php?id=4997
The funniest thing about Dosanjh is he doesn’t get it, he looks and talks like he’s more stunned than usual. The supreme gall of him, to get what could in reality be a beating,IF all ballots were recounted, to then say he’s considering a run for the Liberal Leadership!
There has to be an uprising over this practice of not recounting all ballot boxes. Where do we start?
If Conservatives don’t want to fight on this one, WHY NOT? It’s very upsetting to say the least but worse, it’s coming close to a fraudulent exercise at best.
The Quote of the Day has to go to Mark Styne with his article in NRO (National Review Online).
“According to newspaper reports, polls show that most people believe newspaper reports claiming that most people believe polls showing that most people have read newspaper reports agreeing that polls show heâs going to win.”
That pretty much says it for both sides of the border.
article.nationalreview.com/
maz2, “memere” (memer) is also an affectionate Canadian French term for grandmother. My son has one and I had one. It’s also a slangish reference to describe someone as elderly, out-of-touch and/or old-fashioned in thinking.
RIP Annie-Mae.
Flashback:
Tom Wappel, the first Hungarian speaking ex-Liberal MP.
Wappel exhibited all the haute arrogance and sneer of the Liberal Party.
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“Tom Wappel
May 10, 2001
There are ways to get worse publicity than Tom Wappel, the MP who wrote an 81âyearâold, a veteran, legally blind and partially deaf, and told him, sneeringly, in effect to get lostâ because the old man had not voted Liberal. The Toronto Star broke the story yesterday.
Here are some:
* You could nail a fiveâdayâold kitten to the floor and use it as a doorstop.
* You could cut off the heat to an orphanage in winter, and insist the little ones dance for stale biscuits, and then not give them any.
* Or, You could take a chainsaw to the last redwood that was also the home of the last eagle and have it fall on the last panda.
Outside of these cringing options, however Mr. Tom Wappel has more or less cornered the market in the Olympics of obnoxious behaviour.
It’s important to remember the target in this affair.
Mr. Wappel wasn’t bringing the weight of his discount sarcasm against some monster corporate invader, or tossing off a snarling letter to George Bush on Star Wars, or to some foreign dictator.
Mr. Wappel, the MP, was bringing the Big Bertha of his laserâguided scorn to fire on an 81âyearâold.
An 81âyearâold, who actually fought in a war, to make sure that people would always be allowed to vote, so that things, like MPs, could continue to exist, and would have Parliaments to go to, and offices in which to write sour-cute nasty little letters to their constituents, and then get better pensions when the MPs retired, than the veterans who fought for them.
Mr. Wappel says he’s puzzled – puzzled that the vet would ask him, his MP for help, when Mr. Wappel knows the vet voted Alliance. Mr. Wappel is merely puzzled. The rest of the countryâ all of itâ is suffocating in amazement, staggered almost to the point of coma, that Mr. Wappel thinks he owns the right to represent only those he knows voted for him.
As the letter reveals, he has it on record. That, Mr. Wappel, was the other reason for that silly war: the SECRET ballot. When Mr. Baxter, the veteran, was running around the coastlines of Europe dodging U-boats with the Canadian Navy essentially what he was up to was offering the chance of losing his life, for the right of all the rest of us later on to voteâ in secretâ and dear God as it turns out, in some cases, for you.
We are puzzled Mr. Wappel. How do you know? Why do you keep records? Democractic representation is not to be confused with a filing cabinet in some MPs office with the names of those who are loyal, and thoseâ whether blind or deaf or old or notâ who are not loyal.
Mr. Wappel has apologized. The blitzkrieg of outrage since yesterday was obviously too much for the courage of an MP to contain. But it’s only because his charmless attitude is known that he’s sorry for it; only because not even his Liberal colleagues can abide that attitude that he repents. When it was just him and the 81âyearâold, as the letter proves, things were so different.
I think this is a little too deep for a forced apology. And I can only hope Mr. Jim Baxter and his wife, after this gust has blown over them, have the strength to put the apology in the same waste basket, as the letter that made it necessary.
For The National, I’m Rex Murphy.”
http://www.cbc.ca/national/rex/rex20010510.html
vitruvius – what was the award you received? Wearing a tuxedo isn’t for everyday. So? Tell us why and for what reason you abandoned us and your DJ duties.
Rex Murphy is one of the few gold nuggets in the swirling CBC pan of gravel and other to-be-discarded flotsam and jetsam.
And he’s a Newfie that speaks English without the need for subtitles, so extra points for him.
PS I’m originally a Caper, known regionally as Newfies with their brains kicked-out.
The Stunned Dummy award goes to Ujjal Dosanjh who MAY have won his riding, we can’t be sure, by 22 votes, down after recount from 33 votes. Now we have to assume none of the ballot boxes NOT recounted were all OK. After all of this, that bozo has now said he may run for the leadership of the Liberal Party.
Where do we go to demand all ballots be recounted?
Question is, who do we turn to for action on this?
Posted by: Liz J at October 25, 2008 11:43 AM
Answer: a conservative government. Trouble is, we don’t have one.
“Nazi Enigma machines helped General Franco in Spanish Civil War
Sixteen crates locked in a dark store room in Madrid for more than 70 years hold the secret to how General Franco might have won the Spanish Civil War.
Inside the crates are Enigma code-making machines that Franco had bought from Nazi Germany and used to co-ordinate his troops who fought on fronts hundreds of miles apart.
The 26 machines were discovered this week by the Spanish daily newspaper El PaĂs, hidden in army headquarters since the Civil War ended in 1939, most still in perfect condition.
The Enigma machines gave Franco’s Nationalists a crucial advantage because their code was never cracked by their Republican foes. Hitler used the machine to devastating effect to command his forces during the Second World War, until the code was finally deciphered by cryptologists at Bletchley Park, Oxfordshire.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5003411.ece
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/10/ron-howard-obam.html?iref=werecommend
Ron Howard’s time travel voters.
Up to 50 Teens Exposed to HIV at Missouri High School
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,443715,00.html
Say again?
Until now we’ve been told that a person gets HIV through unprotected sex and sharing dirty needles.
It makes you wonder what possible vector did this.
Doesn’t home-schooling look attractive?
“A major problem with the climate change debate is scientists, especially those in government or academia, claiming or pretending they have no political motive. There is a lesson for all in what is happening in Canada, because it is true in most countries and at the UN, especially the IPCC, as I have documented in articles in Canada Free Press.”
“Andrew Weaver is a professor at the University of Victoria who has built a career around climate change. The assertion in the October 12th Ottawa Citizen that âit was pure chanceâ that his book, âKeeping Our Cool: Canada in a warming worldâ, was published during a Federal election campaign is not credible. Weaver may not have known about the specific election date, but it was general knowledge that an election was planned. Similarly, his claim that he was driven to telling people how to vote because of âPrime Minister Stephen Harperâs [supposed] war on science and scientistsâ is self-serving and not extraordinary given Weaverâs background.”
“The âonly tipping pointâ Weaver needs to worry about is when the public discovers what is real in the climate change debate and how he, the IPCC and Al Gore, Nobel Prize winners all, have misstated the science. If there has been a government led âwar on science and scientistsâ, it has been against those of us who want to take a rational approach to the climate science debate, listening to all reasonable viewpoints and censoring no one. While the federal Liberals rarely allowed a climate realist to testify before Commons Committee hearings on the subject, the Conservative government have gone even further and not once arranged that a scientist on the skepticâs side of the debate testify. The real tragedy is that, while billions of taxpayer dollars have been squandered on the impossible goal of âstopping climate changeâ, targets for real pollution reduction are not being met.”
Dr.Tim Ball
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5783